Proposed
Title:
Regional/Area
Studies and Neo-Orientalism in Middle East and Chinese Studies
This
Panel will be co-sponsored by
Sociology
of Islam Journal
Center
for Global Studies - Shanghai University
Fifth
Global International Studies Conference
1-3
April, 2017 | National Taiwan University
Dear
all,
The World International Studies
Committee is
holding a conference in collaboration with the Taiwan Association of
International Relations (TAIR) and National Taiwan University. The conference
will take place on 1-3 April 2017 at National Taiwan University (http://www.ntu.edu.tw/english/) in Taipei.
Regional
or area studies was born under colonialism and imperialism as part of Western
academia, specifically in Europe and US. This new academic approach gave a
birth to a new scholarship which was termed ‘Orientalism’ by Edward Said. Orientalist
scholarship dominated US academic institutions in the history, political
science, anthropology fields within Middle East Studies, Soviet/Slavic Studies,
African Studies, Asian Studies and Latin American Studies in the cold war era. However,
the collapse of the soviet system and emergence neoliberal globalization has
changed the focus of regional/area studies after 1991. Specifically, new
scholarship has arisen in the areas of International and Global Studies,
Sociology and International Relations as well as scholarship concerning new
geographical and cultural commodities such as democracy, human rights, freedom,
free press, free election in Modern China Studies, Central Asian Studies, Middle
East and Islamic Studies, African Studies, and so on. In this way there was the
emergence of a new form of scholarship, which is different from classical
orientalism. We call this Neo-Orientalism. In this panel, we would like to
focus on how these issues apply within Modern China Studies and Middle East and
Islamic Studies.
If
you are interested in participating in our panel together on Regional/Area
Studies and Neo-Orientalism in Middle East and Chinese Studies, please let
us know off the list. The deadline is the June 30 2016. We welcome submissions
related to, but not limited to the following subjects:
- Modern
China Studies and Orientalism/Neo-Orientalism
- Modern
Middle East/Islamic Studies and Orientalism/Neo-Orientalism
Email
us the following information by Thursday, June 30 midnight :
-Abstract,
200 words
-Title
of your paper
-Your
short bio, up to 100 words, including your institutional affiliation, email,
etc.
Please
use the following emails for the submissions and communication:
Tugrul
Keskin tugrulkeskin@maltepe.edu.tr
or tugrulk@vt.edu
Any
questions or suggestions are welcome.
Best
to all,
